Our website address is: https://kintravet.com.
At [Your Veterinary Practice Name], we are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring the security of your personal data. This policy explains how we collect, use, store, and protect your information in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
We may collect and process the following personal data:
We use your personal data to:
We will only process your personal data when we have a lawful basis to do so, such as consent, contract necessity, legal obligation, or legitimate interest.
We do not share your personal data with third parties except:
All third parties are required to maintain the confidentiality and security of your information.
We retain personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes it was collected for, including any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. Medical records are typically retained for a minimum of 7 years after the last treatment.
Under GDPR, you have the right to:
We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your data, including secure storage systems, password protection, limited access, and staff training.
If you have any questions about this policy or wish to exercise your rights, please contact:
Data Protection Officer
Kintra Veterinary Services
0141 212 9973
info@kintravet.com
We may update this policy from time to time. The latest version will always be available at our clinic and on our website.
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service Privacy Policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select "Remember Me", your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.